By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer The late crush of holiday travelers picked up steam Wednesday, with about 2.7 million people expected to board flights and millions more planning to drive or take the train to Thanksgiving celebrations. Airline officials say they are confident they can avoid the kind of massive disruptions that have marred
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NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said there was “no indication of a terrorist attack” in the vehicle crash and explosion that left two people dead at a checkpoint on the American side of a U.S.-Canada bridge on Wednesday. “Based on what we know at this moment,” she said, “there is
Continue ReadingBy Macie Goldfarb, CNN (CNN) — A couple and their dog had to be rescued as water began to fill their sailboat while they were 90 miles off Florida’s Gulf Coast, according to a news release from the US Coast Guard. Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg received a digital selective calling alert at about 11 a.m. Saturday
Continue ReadingBy JOHN SEEWER Associated Press The FBI says a white gunman who opened fire inside a Walmart in Ohio and wounded four people before killing himself may have been motivated by racist extremism. The attack at the Walmart near Dayton just days before Thanksgiving injured four shoppers. Investigators say the victims were two Black women,
Continue ReadingHONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii leaders want to make it easier for tourists from Japan to visit the U.S. state by creating a traveler pre-clearance program. Gov. Josh Green and other state officials proposed the idea during a recent visit to Tokyo. Hawaii News Now reported Tuesday that Green hopes allowing travelers from Japan to save
Continue ReadingBy CAROLYN THOMPSON and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — A vehicle speeding toward a U.S.-Canada bridge from the American side crashed and exploded at a checkpoint in Niagara Falls on Wednesday, killing two people and prompting the closing of border crossings in the area, authorities said. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press The mastermind of the Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the worst Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed in generations is a secretive figure, feared on both sides of the battle lines. In Gaza, no figure looms larger in determining the future trajectory of the war than Yehya Sinwar. Obsessive, disciplined
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER and RAF CASERT Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The far-right, anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders was headed for a massive parliamentary election victory Wednesday in one of the biggest political upsets in Dutch politics since World War II, and one that is bound to send shockwaves through Europe. The result puts
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — After a Monday landslide that authorities say killed at least three people near a remote community in southeast Alaska, a group rescued about 20 people from the affected area, a resident involved in the effort said. Search efforts for three people who remain missing have finished for the evening,
Continue ReadingOTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A jury has found a senior intelligence official in Canada’s national police force guilty of breaching the country’s secrets law. Jurors declared Cameron Jay Ortis guilty of three counts of violating the Security of Information Act and one count of attempting to do so. Ortis had pleaded not guilty to all
Continue ReadingBy TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A jury should decide whether Tesla and Elon Musk oversold the electric car company’s Autopilot system and caused the fatal crash of a man who engaged it and took his hands off the steering wheel. That’s the ruling of Florida Judge Reid Scott. He rejected
Continue ReadingOTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A jury has found a senior intelligence official in Canada’s national police force guilty of breaching the country’s secrets law. Jurors declared Cameron Jay Ortis guilty of three counts of violating the Security of Information Act and one count of attempting to do so. Ortis had pleaded not guilty to all
Continue ReadingBy JOSEF FEDERMAN, TIA GOLDENBERG and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and Hamas on Wednesday agreed to a four-day cease-fire in the war in Gaza — a diplomatic breakthrough that will free dozens of hostages held by militants as well as Palestinians imprisoned in Israel, and bring a large influx of aid
Continue ReadingSANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man recorded video as he fatally shot a homeless man who threw a shoe at him after being awakened while sleeping on a sidewalk, prosecutors said. Craig Sumner Elliott, 68, of Garden Grove, California, was charged with felony voluntary manslaughter and an enhancement for personal use of
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — The New York judge overseeing Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial and his law clerk have received hundreds of harassing messages that court security has deemed “serious and credible” since the former president began publicly criticizing court staff. Since October 3, when Trump posted on social media a baseless allegation
Continue ReadingBy BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego State’s Jaedon LeDee walked off the court after a monster performance in Las Vegas on Sunday night with the Continental Tire Main Event championship belt in his right hand and the garish MVP medallion draped around his neck. The Aztecs’ bruising forward continued
Continue ReadingAUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — Automaker Stellantis has announced a recall of more than 32,000 of its hybrid Jeep Wrangler SUVs because they pose a potential fire risk. During a review of customer information, Stellantis determined that eight of the hybrid Wranglers had caught fire while they were turned off and parked. Six of the
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A 21-year-old man suspected along with another man of stealing items and brandishing a firearm as they left a Dollar General store in Desert Hot Springs was charged today with robbery. Kevin Dionte Ezekial Davis additionally faces a sentence-enhancing allegation of using a firearm and one misdemeanor count of willfully resisting arrest, according to court
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — An Iowa woman whose husband ran for Congress and lost the GOP primary in 2020 was convicted by a federal jury Tuesday of a voter fraud scheme during the primary and general elections. Kim Phuong Taylor, 49, of Sioux City, was convicted of 23 counts of fraudulent voting and 26
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press The Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota is defending itself from claims of political bias after an unofficial message cautioning airmen to not attend a conservative political rally began circulating on social media. At issue is the Dakota Patriot Rally, an event held Friday featuring a pro-Trump group known
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